Senior Research Fellow

About the role

The Oxford EARTH Initiative (“Ensuring equitable Access to sustainable Resources for a Thriving Habitat”; OxEARTH) was launched in 2025, dedicated to tackling the critical challenges of sustainable natural resource management. A central theme to OxEARTH is how to understand and mitigate the ecological and other environmental impacts involved in resourcing the transition to Net Zero; which is already driving unprecedented demand for the critical raw materials required for the generation, storage, and transmission of renewable energy. OxEARTH’s Strategic Research Fund (SRF) award supports the creation of four faculty posts, including one in Biology proposed in response to SRF Board feedback recognizing the impacts of mining on biodiversity.

The role requires someone with an interdisciplinary mixture of expertise bring together biodiversity and conservation science, ecology, environmental economics, impact assessment, and nature finance.

These Senior Research Fellow posts will be for five years in the first instance. The principal criterion is excellence in research, although potential to contribute to teaching, as well as to the wider aims of Department will be welcome.

The successful candidate will be located in the new £200M Life and Mind Building (LaMB) that is fully equipped with state -of-the-art facilities.

How to apply

The University of Oxford is committed to equal opportunity, and to being a place where everyone belongs and is supported to succeed. We recognise how the diversity of our community enriches our ability to deliver on our academic mission.

We welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds, including those under-represented within higher education. No applicant or members of staff shall be unlawfully discriminated against on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

This post is full time (although applications to work part time will be considered)

The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on Wednesday 10th December 2025 and interviews will be held on Wednesday 28th January 2026. Applications for this vacancy are to be made online via our e-recruitment system, and you will be required to upload a covering letter explaining your interest in the post, a description of past research achievements, an outline of your research plans for the post, and a CV as part of your online application.

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